Welcome to Special Reports — in-depth analyses and reflections from the Centre for Development Communication. These reports go beyond routine updates, offering critical insights, evidence, and narratives that shape policy, practice, and the future of development communication.
We often gather to “dialogue” under chandeliers, around high tables, and behind nameplates that scream status, not solidarity. We say the meeting is inclusive, but the seating arrangement tells another story. What if the very way we sit is part of the problem? In spaces meant to heal wounds, shape futures, and rebuild trust, formality […]
In my 15 years in the development sector, I have observed that the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) practice by a greater number of NGOs is often perceived as a necessary administrative task. For the organisations, it is a task to satisfy donors, complete reports, or tick boxes on a log frame. After spending years in
Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E): Beyond the Checklist Read More »
The Federal Capital Territory Administration continues to rely on the restoration of Abuja master plan as a justification to carry out demolition and forced eviction. This government behaviour has resulted in the forced eviction of a greater number of persons from their homes. For instance, between 2003 and 2008, the Abuja authority demolished homes and
Need for participatory communication: Abuja requires strategic plan, not master plan Read More »
The Nigeria Land Value Development Financing Baseline Study supported by the International Union for Land Value Taxation is a document that examines the experience of Nigeria’s Land Value Development Financing using the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) namely, Abaji, Abuja Municipal, Bwari, Gwagwalada, Kwali, and Kuje Area Councils as a pilot
Land Value Development Financing: FCT-Abuja Community Viewpoint Read More »
As Nigerians now buy a litre of petrol at N900 it becomes fundamental to interrogate the action that led to the 2012 uprising where Nigerians poured out on the streets when the government of Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, former Nigerian president increased the price of petrol from N65 to N141 per litre. The Civil society organizations,
Subsidy Removal: Where Are The 2012 Activists? Read More »
The poor farmers that spoke to MAWA-Foundation at the FO1 area of Kubwa in Bwari Area Council of FCT, in different narratives, gave accounts of how their lands located around the Military Pension Board along Daughters of Charity Hospital were taking over without any form of compensation. They gave accounts of how they lost ownership
The poor lost landownership and control in FCT-Abuja Read More »
The Nigerian state’s non-compliance with disclosure continues to be a challenge confronting its extractive industry transparency. Nowhere does non-compliance happen like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), saddled with the responsibility of managing and harnessing Nigeria’s oil and gas. The non-disclosure by the NPPC in the way it carries out activities in the extractive sector
Nigeria’s Non-Compliance With Disclosure a Challenge to Extractive Transparency Read More »
Residents of the Rigar Duka community in Kura Local Government Area of Kano state say they do not have concrete information regarding the Gas Pipeline project taking place in their area. This affirms the secrecy in the activities of Nigeria’s extractive deal that makes it seem citizens have no right to information about the extractive
Kano Gas Project: It is the Citizen’s Right to Know Extractive Deal Read More »
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) saddled with the responsibility of managing and harnessing Nigeria’s oil and gas in what appears an attitude to a disregard for accountability that has helped undermine its country’s extractive sector, has refused to disclose contract deals, and has abandoned the Jos oil pipeline project. Under the deal, NNPC awarded
NNPC refuses disclosure, abandons Jos Oil Pipeline Project Read More »
Policymakers, development agents, and communicators often disregard the involvement of the people in the dialogue and negotiation on issues affecting them. Rather, we often impose ready-made solutions as a replacement for local knowledge and solutions. Policymakers and development practitioners often fail to realize that participatory communication holds the key to an inclusive decision-making process that
The Role of Participatory Communication in Community Development Read More »